Kolkata: They have disowned their CEO, refused to admit he is their owner and now face an uncertain future in the Indian Premier League, but Chennai Super Kings will live another day. Live for maybe their last day of existence and fight for their third title in just six years of the IPL - against Mumbai Indians.
It's not the ideal way to prepare for a title clash. Players, however talented they may be, with things other than cricket on their mind will always find it tough to perform. Maybe that's the challenge that props up MS Dhoni's men - to go out there and show that their job is just to give it their best on the ground for the team they play for. Matters beyond the field of play are not in their control.
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08:12 PM, May 25, 2013
Monaco: Nico Rosberg set the fastest qualifying time at the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday to secure his third consecutive pole position and a fourth straight for Mercedes. The German driver finished ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton and, with Monaco's track the hardest to overtake on in Formula One, Mercedes have a great chance to clinch a first win of the season on Sunday. Red Bull have won the last...
06:42 PM, May 25, 2013
Monaco: German driver Nico Rosberg posted the fastest time in the crash-marred third practice session of the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday. The Mercedes driver is aiming for a third straight pole position and will be confident heading into the afternoon's qualifying. Monaco's razor-thin, sinewy street circuit again proved hard to handle and Ferrari driver Felipe Massa was fortunate to walk away unharmed after a heavy crash. Lotus driver Romain...
03:53 PM, May 25, 2013
Mumbai: Gmail looks all set to sport a brand new design, if leaked images are to be believed. Not only is the web service about to get a major revamp, Gmail for Android and iOS too are in line for a makeover. Android Police sparked off the redesign frenzy by showing off leaked screenshots of the updates that originated from Google I/O. In a session called Structure in Android App...
12:56 PM, May 25, 2013
The Kolkata Police has stepped up security and has placed CCTV cameras at the Eden Gardens to keep a check on any betting or fixing practices during the IPL 6 final on Sunday. ...
12:29 PM, May 25, 2013
Mariani: Congress MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi was allegedly assaulted by CRPF personnel on Friday when he had gone to inquire about the kidnapping and subsequent release of two garden labourers in Mariani in Assam's Jorhat district. The police said that the two tea garden labourers, Atul Kurmi and Ranjit Nayak, of Naginijan tea estate were kidnapped by miscreants from Nagaland on Thursday. The Assam Police had lodged protests with its Nagaland...
12:06 PM, May 25, 2013
Thrissur: Ace Malayalam comedian and character artiste Kalabhavan Mani surrendered to police Friday and was presented in a court which released him on bail. Mani was on the run since May 14 after three forest officials filed a complaint that they were roughed up by the actor after they stopped his vehicle as part of a routine night checking. According to the forest officials, Mani, after refusing to cooperate with...
11:50 AM, May 25, 2013
Cast: Pooja Gandhi, Raghu Mukherjee, Makarand Deshpande, Ravi Kale, Ravi Shankar, Nisha Kothari, Muni, Karisubbu, Yathiraj and Jaidev; Director: Srinivasaraju; I love a film that doesn't hesitate to present what it had originally planned to such as 'Karimedu', which takes a true story and treats it with such honesty that you want to laud the effort. Even though it is all about heinous crimes and gore, you can't possibly hate...
11:13 AM, May 25, 2013
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Saturday arrested bookie Vinod Mulchandani from the Satellite Area of the Gujarat city. Rs 1.28 crore in cash, laptops and mobile phones were seized from his possession. Some gold biscuits have too been seized from him. Mulchandani was working with a Mumbai based bookie identified as "LC". Mulchandani was involved in betting on IPL matches, and as of now, there is no connection of him...
10:32 AM, May 25, 2013
Next week's Memorial tournament at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio will feature one of the season's strongest fields with the world's top six players all taking part in the PGA Tour event hosted by Jack Nicklaus. Top-ranked Tiger Woods will be back to defend the title he claimed by two shots last year while Rory McIlroy (second), Adam Scott (third), 2010 champion Justin Rose (fourth), Brandt Snedeker (fifth) and Luke...
09:34 AM, May 25, 2013
Monaco: Sebastian Vettel needs to rediscover his speed in qualifying if he is to protect his overall Formula One lead at the Monaco Grand Prix. Monaco is the hardest track to overtake on in F1, with only two drivers winning from outside of pole position in the last 10 years, so starting from the front is crucial. But Vettel's Red Bull has not been its usual dominant self in qualifying...
09:08 AM, May 25, 2013
Sarajevo: The president of Bosnia's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation was freed from jail on Friday after the Constitutional Court ordered his release following his arrest last month on corruption charges. President Zivko Budimir was arrested along with 19 other officials in late April 2013 in the most high-profile anti-corruption drive in Bosnia since independence more than two decades ago. A court ordered Budimir and his four co-accused aides to be kept...
07:02 AM, May 25, 2013
London: Britain's security services faced questions on Friday over whether they could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier hacked to death in a busy London street after it emerged that his suspected killers were known to intelligence officers. Suspects Michael Adebolajo, 28 and Michael Adebowale, 22, are under guard in hospital after being shot and arrested by police after the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran...
06:15 AM, May 25, 2013
Kannur: Defence Minister AK Antony on Friday expressed confidence that leaders of the Congress' Kerala unit would themselves resolve any issue facing them. "You (the media) think that there are issues that cannot be resolved in the state unit of the party. I know my colleagues here for several decades and at the appropriate time all will cooperate. My feeling is that the issues can be resolved here itself," Antony...
04:53 AM, May 25, 2013
Rudrapur: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Friday concluded the second phase of his Jantantra Yatra in Rudrapur, asking people to "wake up" to change a system where power has gone into the hands of "tainted" people. As many as 163 of our MPs are tainted. This means that the system is corrupt and needs to be changes," Hazare said, adding, he will launch a major campaign from Delhi's Ramlila Maidan...
02:30 AM, May 25, 2013
Mumbai: Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday asked countrymen to contain their "uncontrolled passion" for gold and instead save in financial instruments. "Have faith in our financial sector. Unfortunately, we have difficulty shedding our old habits and put our money in gold," he said while speaking at an event to mark the platinum anniversary celebrations of state-run Dena Bank. "The uncontrolled passion for gold must be contained," Chidambaram said and...
02:03 AM, May 25, 2013
Muktsar: To ensure all round development of rural students studying in government schools in Punjab, the state government on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NGO International Award for Young People. The MoU was signed by DPI (schools) Kamal Kumar Garg and Bivujit Mukhoty, representative of the NGO, in presence of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. "This was a leap forward towards state government's commitment to provide quality...
01:32 AM, May 25, 2013
Rajahmundry: Some prominent US educational institutions are imparting industrial training to students in India under the Centre's Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP), Human Resource Development Minister M Pallam Raju on Friday said. Under the initiative, training is provided to students who have passed polytechnic and engineering courses, based on their understanding of the subject and as per the needs of industry. The first phase of the World Bank-sponsored TEQIP,...
12:27 AM, May 25, 2013
London: Britain launched fighter jets on Friday to escort a Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying 297 passengers from Lahore after it was diverted from Manchester, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry said. Flight PK709 from the city of Lahore in Pakistan was due to land at Manchester Airport in north west England at 1230 GMT. The plane was diverted to Stansted airport, east of central London, according to a Manchester...
06:58 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will declare results of Senior School Certificate Examination 2013 (Class XII) on May 27 at 10:00 am. The results will be available on the following websites - www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in and www.cbse.nic.in The students can also call up on the following numbers to check the results - 011-24300699, 011-28127030. The students can also register for SMS alert. ...
06:30 PM, May 24, 2013
